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Duke PA Program Established

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Duke University establishes first program to formally train physician assistants in 1965. Shown with their EKG instructor, Kathleen Andreoli, RN are (left to right) Don Guffey, Vic Germino, Dick Scheele and Ken Ferrell.

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Student photograph from article “More than a Nurse, Less than a Doctor,” September 6, 1966, Look Magazine. Other items courtesy of the DUMC Archives, Durham, NC.

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